JBoss Forge Introduction and addon development

Objectives
Discover JBoss Forge. Learn how to extend it for your needs.

Notes

This is a talk focussed on showcasing JBoss Forge to newbies, and help them discover features in JBoss Forge.
Eventually, they will learn on extending JBoss Forge to build in capabilities that would suit their needs.
This talk is for you if you’re a beginner and you want a tool that helps you make fewer mistakes.
The contents of the talk also apply if you’re a pro and you want a tool that automates away the trivial bits.
The talk is relevant even if you have unique needs, and also when your company or customers have unique needs.

Vineet Reynolds

Senior Software Engineer, JBoss Developer Experience, Red Hat
Contributor to
- JBoss Forge - Scaffolding and others
- JBoss Developer experience materials
Maintainer of TicketMonster

Notes

I’m Vineet, and I work as an engineer for JBoss at Red Hat
I work primarily in the JBoss Developer experience team.
Primarily on JBoss Forge and JBoss Developer Framework to make it easier for developers to get started with Java EE development.

Let’s talk about productivity

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JBoss Forge
in Action

Forge commands can consume the output of others
- Goes beyond offerings from Maven archetypes etc.
Forge is not constrained to any framework.
- Very much unlike tools tied to frameworks.

It offers productivity to beginners and experts alike.
- Caters to IDE and command-line users.
It provides 'sugar' at a higher level than language constructs.
- Productivity is not limited by requiring you to be aware of "syntactic sugar".
- "I need a persistence layer" vs "I need to declare a property"

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